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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

after any bequest you make or any debts." If a deceased person
has left a legacy behind, any action must be in line with that legacy.
The deceased may have left all his property to the woman and nothing
to the male members of the family: In that event, the bequest will be
valid and everything will go to the woman.

There is special wisdom in the way that God places financial re-
sponsibility for women upon men. If God so wished, no such burden

would be imposed on men and women would be responsible for
their own maintenance, and even that of their children, in the absence
of any financial guarantee. That would be a great responsibility and
a heavy psychological burden. No such material burden is imposed
on women in the Qur'an.

A Woman's Right to Divorce

The first essential point needing to be made on the subject of di-
vorce is that the practices of those fanatics who refuse to admit a
woman's right to divorce are absolutely wrong. According to the fa-
natical mindset, no matter how unhappy or oppressed a woman may
be, she still has no right to divorce. The frightening mentality of the

fanatics - that seeks to oppress women and portray men as superior -
is currently put into action in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Not only does such a mindset have no place in the Qur'an, it is
also a violation of the spirit of the Qur'an. Nowhere in the Qur'an is
there any provision to the effect that "only the man can divorce his
wife." Indeed, verses 228 and 241 of Surat al-Baqara speak of women
who have divorced. Divorce is a right bestowed on women as well as

men.

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